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Title Fireman.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A fireman pulls a running hose towards him and fails to turn it towards the fire behind him. The valentine uses slang and provinicialisms to mock the fireman and suggest that he will not attract any women.
Notes Text: Oh! what a "gallus" Fireman, / To run "wid der Machine; " / To "take de butt," or pick a muss / None better e'er was seen, / But do not think a decent girl / As a "Lize" would wish to shine : / Or be unto a Loafer! / A loving Valentine.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Fire fighters -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Laziness -- Caricatures and cartoons.
English language -- Slang -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.153.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 4.3